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Re: Makani bought by Google X

Rod Read — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:23:40 GMT

Android is built on Linux. There's permanently a race (evolutionary fitness) between the mix of packages used in a release. Open Hardware is born ready.

Is Makani's Airbase Google X's Secret Base?

dave santos — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:40:51 GMT

Will some of us soon be working on ramped-up Google X AWE R&D on Makani's Alameda Island? Is the news a clue to a wider public mystery? Somehow Google X has

Re: Makani bought by Google X

Hardensoft International Limited — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:34:35 GMT

This decision by Google endears the people there to me even more. My opinion is that the purchase demonstrates a worthy commitment to the memory of Makani's

Re: Kite cone

dave santos — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:20:18 GMT

It seems the SuperTurbine key claim to novelty is its central rigid driveshaft. Rod's "kite cone" design does not depend on such a driveshaft, acting

Re: Makani bought by Google X

dave santos — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:48:52 GMT

JoeF, Good questions: Wider R&D circles may finally get a long-awaited bite at this apple; its up to us to best present the case for Google X to

Re: Makani bought by Google X

Joe Faust — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:52:30 GMT

Well, now, that would be something ... 1. Must subscribe $ to read the article. 2. Will new reins diversity tech? 3. Will new reins join the larger research

Makani bought by Google X

edoishi — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:03:38 GMT

According to Michael Specter in the May 20th addition of the New Yorker, "Last week, Makani Power found a solution to its financial problems: Google X has

Re: Kite cone

Rod Read — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:46:42 GMT

Thanks for the kind compliments Doug. There are some fairly important differences between the designs. Mine is a string and cloth affair. keeping a straight

Confederate helicopter in Slate Magazine

Doug — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:39:00 GMT

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/04/19/civil_war_helicopter_designed_by_a_confederate_engineer.html?wpisrc=obinsite The Confederate Helicopter That

Re: Kite cone

Doug — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:35:40 GMT

YUP I like this rendering of a SuperTurbine(R), similar to what I laid out in US 6616402. Dang that was so many years ago now! Seems like a couple of

Kite cone

Joe Faust — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:34:52 GMT

kite cone by Rod Read, May 17, 2013

Kitegen news

VonMusus — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:22:00 GMT

Kitegen seems to have gotten funding (Ed.) http://www.sabic.com/ventures/portfolio Paolo Musumeci Sent from my iPad

Re: Professor Crackpot again

dave santos — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:25:23 GMT

Doug, John Dabiri does not deserve your crude name-calling. Just let the facts speak. In fact, your own work depends on tilting the axis toward vertical,

Makani finally accomplishes end-to-end all flight-modes session

dave santos — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:13:52 GMT

May 5 was a good day for Makani, with a long overdue all fight-modes session of a 30kW AWES (after seven years, and over twenty million dollars of R&D).

Re: Professor Crackpot again || Constant velocity joints

Joe Faust — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:15:54 GMT

Not directly Voith, but [File:Simple CV Joint animated.gif] Part of article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-velocity_joint